Comic 542 - The DeKalb County Public Access Halloween Special, Page 1

Author Notes:

Heheh... Nice spooky opening to a Halloween chapter. ^^ Who's this mysterious man? What sort of occult ritual is he starting up? Great hook for the chapter.

The shading is what makes this page. ^^ Everything all dark and spooky, the light of the candles and the shift in the glow for the final page... Really, really happy with how this one came out.

Naturally loved doing the costumes too. First panel has Thor, Raven, Dipper, and Belle. Those two kids are, incidentally, the two brothers who O'Hara instigated into fighting each other back in her Establishing Character Moment. We wanted to see them again after that whole fiasco and show them getting along again, so here they are. ^^ Didn't mean for it to be them, but Martin thought they looked similar so was a natural choice.

As for our mysterious burglar-looking guy... Who would he be? Who knows. ^^

Fun fact! Those runic symbols on the banner are actually just letters in the Hylian alphabet!

Yeah, this one's a little bit hard to say much about, just because some odd things are going on with little dialogue and little context for the moment. I do like how this opening came out, though.

One thing that has been fun about what we've done of the chapter so far is just getting to do random costumes and such, both on random extras as seen here and on the more established people. Though this does make me realize right now we have an oddly high Disney quotient going, sitting at three of them right now and the chapter isn't all that far in on the drawing front.